Psyche Mission: mission and targets
Data as of 2026-10-04
Dates declared by the archive
- Project start
- August 1, 2022
- Declared end
- not declared
The start the archive declares is the start of the project, not the launch, and an end it does not declare does not mean the mission is still running.
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A declared target is what the archive files the mission’s data under, not a record of observation.
Description published by the archive
The primary objective of the Psyche mission is to map and study the poperties of asteroid (16) Psyche. Psyche is the first mission to a metal asteroid which offers a new opportunity for discovery on the building blocks of planet formation. The spacecraft launched successfully on 13 October 2023.
Quoted in English, as the archive publishes it, read on October 4, 2026.
Source
Identifier in the archive, which is its citation: urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.psyche
NASA Planetary Data System, PDS Registry, investigation context products. Dates and targets read on September 29, 2026; how to cite the archive: https://pds.nasa.gov/datastandards/citing/